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THE N T U N : 

Ml Rinv k nKlllTKI., rniNTEH?, UI'I'OSITE t ITV OALI.. 

1867. 



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OF THE 



SMsi Ai»F ©®^P® W®i@m 

Term of Office Expiring May 5, 1868. 

PRESIDENT AND TREASURER. 

Maj. Gen. Gershom Mott, 
Bordentown, N. J. 

VICE PRESIDENT. 

Br'vt Maj. Gen. Robert McAllister. 
Allentown, Pa. 

RECORDING AND CORRESPONDING 
SECRETARY. 

Major Edward L. Welling, M. D. 

Pennington, N. J. 

DIRECTORS. 

Br'vt Brig. Gen. Wm. R. Brewster New York 

Br'vt. Brig. Gen. Wm. J. Sewell New Jersey/ 

Br'vt. Brig. Gen. Edwin R. Biles Pennsylvania 

Br'vt. Brig. Gen. Charles P. Mattocks Maine 

Br'vt. Brig. Gen. George Zinn Philadelphia 

Col. Frederick Cooper New Jersey 

Major A. Judson Clarke New Jersey 



INTRODUCTORy. 



Kcjoiciiig ill the glorious memories of the 
past, with a liearty greeting for the present, aixi 
higli liope« for the future, the Thin! <,'orps Union 
i.-Hues this little jiamphlet to its members, now 
pcattered all over this broad laiul, confidently 
trusting that it may revive tiie martial spirit of 
those days when they all wore the "blue" and 
the " diamond," and marched on to victory with 
the bannered hosts of the noble old Corps. 
Perchance it may cojne to the peaceful homes, 
and places of business — aye, it may be to tho 
sick couch of very many, who will, as they read 
it, gaze with greater interest, and with redoubled 
aflection and pride on our golden decoration, 
and on the mute but eloquent engraving which 
adorns their liwellings. Memory will call up 
from her treasured storehouse the scenes and 
associations of the hurried, tiresoujc march, the 
hasty bivouac, the battle, the victory, the defeat, 
the wounds, the dead and dying comrades ; while 



sweetly blending with them all comes siren 
winged peace, with magic power, binding up the 
wounds of war, healing the solitary, mourning, 
riven heart, and clothing with monumental dig- 
nity each blade of grass as it rears anew its 
emerald splendor over the resting places of their 
patriot dead. For the widow and the orphan it 
commemorates a husband and a father, who fell 
under the " Red,'' the " White," or the " Blue," 
a "Diamond" lost in the setting of earth, to 
be reproduced in the soldiers glorious signet of 
eternity. And while with one hand it offers the 
afflicted ones its sincerest sympathies, and its 
most cordial remembrances, with the other it 
proffers, whenever necessary, the heartiest 
benevolence of its Treasury. To all, it comes as 
a messenger from the glorious old days of the 
Third Corps — recalling hallowed reminiscences, 
pleasant companionships, saluting the living, 
and reverently remembering the dead, and ■.bid- 
ding us leave for a little time the busy, bustling 
avocations of life, that we may live over again 
our army days, and consecrate ourselves anew to 
that Association to which we are bound by no 
common ties, and which this day invites us to 
receive its affectionate God-speed, 



Tlie lioard of Directors, in issuing this 
pariijthlet, desire thereby to present to all the 
ujenibere of tlie Union the transactions of ti»e 
Af?8ociation since the army was disbandeti. to 
hIiow its present status and workings, and to 
place its super^^tructure on more permanent foun- 
dations for all coming time. It has been im- 
jiossible, from a corps gathered froni all [»arts of 
our widely extende<l country, and now scattered 
to their rcHf.ectivc homes, to have a very large 
attendance at our annual reunions. This, hc»w- 
ever, does not evince any want of interest on 
the part of the members, or any disposition to 
ignore the Association, but is attributable to the 
vt-ry great dihtnnce of many from the jdaces of 
meeting, to the all-absorbing deniands of busi- 
ness, and to tlie fact that very many have 
failed to see the notices of the meetings, in the 
papers of New York. Philadelphia an«l Boston. 
< )n account of the large number of members on 
the roll, as well as for want of the addresses of 
more than half of them, it has likewise been 
in)possible for the Secretary toadvi^eeach mem- 
ber of the place of the annual meetings, and of 
such other matters of interest as have transpired 
from time to time. That thel'nion iua\ be abb- 



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to reach its members, will not all the brethren 
to whom this pamphlet may come, send, at an 
early day, their addresses to the Secretary, that 
he may transmit to them the transactions of the 
Association. 

The Constitution and By-Laws, as altered 
and amended since the war, are presented in this 
pamphlet, and there can be no doubt but that 
the important revisions there made will com- 
mend themselves to all interested as proper, 
judicious, and for the best interests of the Society. 

Particular attention is called to Article IX. of 
the Constitution, reducing the dues to $3 per 
annum, payable annually, and to By-Law VI., 
ordering that "all dues accrueing from members 
prior to May, 18G5, be dropped from the books 
of the Union " — both passed at the annual meet- 
ing. May Gth, 1867. 

Inasmuch as the members of our Association 
are now so widely scattered throughout the land, 
thereby rendering it impossible for all those 
most remote from the places of the annual 
meetings to be present and participate in the 
proceedings, it is respectfully suggested that the 
members in cities and other localities form them- 
selves into sub-societies, and send deleorates to 



i- present ilieni at the annual meetings. This 
will serve to keep in activeexercisetho.se feelings 
of brotherly love and lively interest, so neces.e.iry 
to our growth as an organization, and will kin- 
dle anew on the altar of memory the fires of pa- 
triotic zeal and fervor which burned so brightly 
and earnestly in the "days that tried men's 
fouls." It is a matter for the heartiest congratu- 
lation to the I'nion that this course has already 
been commenced by some of our New England 
brethren, and if the atjnual niceting of l^Ctl is 
to be regarded as an index for the future, then 
will the coming convocations be characterized 
by svch manifefltations of zeal, interest, and cor- 
dial feeling as will make them the afleclionate, 
joyous, fehtal gathering of children around the 
family hearthhtone. We have, hanil in hand, 
ami hhuulder to shoulder, pawned through too 
many ("cenes of sorest trial anil scvere^it danger 
to permit the cares and business of life to crowd 
out the friends and companionships of our army 
days. We are too rieh in hallowed memories 
and historical rcminisiicences, too old in noble 
deeds and spleiulid achievemcnt.s to throw them 
all away for thegiblod follies and goKlen baubles 
which this iilotldiii;;. •rchish world would oiler. 



The crimsoned pages of our history well attest 
that the blood of ^76, which has coursed through 
the veins of so many generations has lost none 
of its freshness and vigor by intervening time ; 
but like the little stream meandering down the 
mountain side, receiving accessions of strength 
and greatness at every step, it has reached at 
last the grandeur and dignity of finished power. 
As the old Third Corps commenced its glorious 
history with the organization of the Grand Army 
of the Potomac, lived with its active life, and 
dissolved when its great object was accomplished, 
so may this Society live with our daily life, be 
fostered and nurtured by the nobleness of our 
manhood and our own history be harmoniously 
blended with its battle-stained record. 

Thus will we best subserve the great ends and 
aims entrusted to our keeping, and thus shall 
our "Diamond" ever and always hold some- 
thing sacred, something undefiled, some pledge 
and keepsake of its higher nature, and like the 
real diamond, retain through the darkness of 
coming time some quenchless gleam of that light 
which has flashed out so beautifully and steadily 
during the years of the great rebellion. 



.Tiijit a* tliiri pamphlet is going to press, the snJ 
news of the 8n<l<len death of Doct. S. C. Ilnn- 
kinB, hite surgeon of .'Id Maine Vohinteers, coine.s 
to ns froni Portlanil, Maine. Identillcd with tlie 
Army of the Potomac for the period of tliree 
years, and one of the first menibcrs of our So- 
ciety, it is a source of pride and pleasure to 
know, as we to-day mourn liis departure from 
eartli, that he was at home, as in the army, a 
highly roj^pected man, and an eminent physician 
and hurgeon. Ilis death leaves a great blank 
in the li^t of pliysicians of the city of Portland, 
at the head <»f which lie shone so conspicuously, 
as well HH in the circle of hirt family and frieml-, 
where his abilities were so highly appreeiated. 
The Third Corps I'nion, in extending to his be- 
reaved family and friemls its lieartfelt symi-a- 
thies, mourns m ith liiem the loss of one of its 
most value<l sons. 

Hy or.ler of the I'.oard of I>irrct.>rs 

KDWAKh f.. WKMJNd. 

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Officers not serving in the Corps, and eligible 
under the Constitution, can forward their names 
and the battles in which engaged, together with 
the initiation fee of ten dollars, to the Treasurer, 
Major General Gershom Mott, Bordentown, New 
Jersey. 

The Corj3S Decoration costs twenty-five dollars, 
and will be furnished to members by the Trea- 
surer, General Mott, on application. 



SECRETARY'S ADDRESS. 
EDWARD L. WELLING, M. D.. 

PENNINGTON, 

3n^epioe:e^ ooxjnsrT^ST, 

NEW JERSEY. 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

TJirjiD QQllPS UPflQS, 

Altered and Amended sines the War. 



hKCLAKATION AND PKKAMULK. 

'1 he offi<.'cr« of the Thinl Arinj Corps de«irou« to prt- 
lervu the hii<t<iry uf the Corps, and the DivisiuDf, Uri- 
);a(Io8 and Rc^'iiuints cdinpoBin;; i(, to pcri>etuatc the 
hurinony that bus cxistid bctwci-o them, and by associa- 
tion to aid brother udiccrs aad their families, whenever 
needin;; it, du hereby form nn AhSuciation for the fur- 
theraiu-e of there objects, and adopt the following Con- 

itdiioii and liy-Laws for its (iovcrnnu-nt : 



CONSTI'lM'lMoX. 

AUTICLK 1. 
Till!* A-!" fcintion -hull be known as the '• Tiiiitl» Cuiii'S 

AKTICLH ir. 
Ofli<>er!" wh<i hftvo been oflicially onntclcd with ihi- 



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Third Army' Corps, and have participated in any of its 
battles, shall be eligible to membership. Staff officers, 
whose duties take them necessarily from the battle field, 
shall also be eligible. 

ARTICLE III. 
The officers of the Association shall be a President, 
Vice-President, Corresponding and a Recording Secre- 
tary, Treasurer, and a Board of Directors. These offi- 
cers shall hold their positions until their successors are 
duly elected, as hereinafter provided for. 

ARTICLE IV. 
The President, Vice President, Secretaries and Direc- 
tors shall be elected annually on the 5th day of May. 
When that day falls on Sunday, the election shall been 
the Monday following. 

ARTICLE V. 

The Treasurer shall be elected by the Board of Direc- 
tors for two years, and shall be subject to removal by 
the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors can 
require security of the Treasurer in such a manner as 
may seem expedient to it, before the Treasurer enters 
upon his duties. 

ARTICLE VL 

Skction 1. The President shall preside at all meetings 
of the Union and Board of Directors, and shall be ex- 
ojfficio a member of the Board of Directors. 

Seo. 2. The Vice President shall act in the absence of 



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the President, as the presiding and executive officer^ 
and shall be, tx-ojffxcin, a member of the Board of Di- 
rectors, 

Sk< . 3. The Corresponding Secretary shall comluct 
the correfpon'lcDcc of the Association, keep accurate 
lists of all members, notify members of non-payraeut of 
dues, and shall nttc-nd the stated meetings of the Board 
of Director?. 

Skc. 4. The Recording Secretary shall keep the records 
• •f the Association, shall receive and receipt fi>r moneys 
duo it, turning over all moneys to the Treasurer, taking 
gross receipts, and shall njakc .juarterly reports <»f the 
transactions of his department. 

Sec. b. The Treafiurer !<hall invc^t the funds <.f the 
\-sociation in Inited Slates securities, keeping unin- 
\estcd three hundred dollars for contingencies, lie .-hall 
ninke i|uarterly reports of the tran.iactions of his depart- 
ment, ili«bnr!«ing funds only by the authority of (ho 
IJoard of Director;*. 

Sk< . G^ The Board of Directors shall have full au- 
thority and control orer the funds of the Association, 
re«'triclcd only by appropriation of them to the declared 
objects of the .\S8ociation, and shall have full control 
orer its afTiiirs. They can by a vote of two-thirds of the 
entire Board, change any of the By-Laws at a stated 
meeting, or at a special meeting, when all the members 
of the Board have been notifjed of the proposed change, 
and of time of meeting, 



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ARTICLE VII. 

The Badge of the Union shall be worn by its mem- 
bers, and shall be furnished by the Treasurer at its ac- 
tual cost. 

ARTICLE VIIL 

Applicants for membership shall be proposed at a 
meeting of the Board of Directors by one of its members 
in writing, stating a battle in which the applicant has 
participated, or during which he has been on duty in the 
Corps. The proposal shall be accompanied by the ini- 
tiation fee of ten dollars. If one-third of the Directors 
vote against the applicant, he will be rejected, and thg 
initiation fee shall be returned. 

ARTICLE IX. 

The dues shall be three dollars per annum, payable 
annually. Members two years in arrears will be dropped 
from the rolls, and can only be ro-instated by a two-third 
vote of the Board of Directors, and by payment of all 
arrears. 

ARTICLE X. 

Members can be suspended by a vote of two-thirds of 
the Board of Directors, and expelled by an unanimous 
vote. In each case the cause will be entered on the 
records. 

ARTICLE XL 

Section 1. The President, Vice-President, and Board 
of Directors shall be elected by a vote of all the mem- 
bers present. 



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SEf. 2. After the war, the presiJing officer, or in case 
• f the death of the President and Vice President, three 
of the liuard of Directors can call a meeting of the 
I'liion, either in New Vork, Philadelphia or Boston, of 
which cluo notice must be given. This meeting is au- 
thorized to amend and alter the Constitution and By- 
Laws, |)rovided the beneficial aims of the Association are 
not iiiterfond with. 

AllTICLi: XII. 

Any one clij,'iblc to nieuiborship can become a life 
luenibi-r by the payment of twcnty-firc dollars, and be 
rulifvcd from the annual dues. 

AKTICLK XIII. 

The Constitution can be altered or amcnde<l at the 
stated iiiiiiual Hurting bj a votr of twu-iliird< pre**nt. 



BY-LAWS, 

I. .Ml vacuncic!* occurring in ll;f ofTiocs shall be filled 
by thr Board of Directors. 

II. The Secretary isauthoiired to call a stated n.eeting 
of the Board of Directors at the request of the President 
or two or more of the Directors, 

III. The Badge manufactured by Tifluny A Co., for 



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twenty-five dollars, is adopted as the " Union Badge." 
Its issue shall be at the cost of twenty-five dollars, and 
it shall be had only fi-om the Treasurer. 

IV. No portion of the funds of the Union shall be 
expended except for the necessary expenses of the Union, 
and for its beneficial objects. 

V. Three members of the Board of Directors shall 
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 

VI. All dues accrueing from members 2)rior to May, 
1865, are hereby dropped from the books of the Union. 
(Passed May 6, 1867.) 



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TREASURER'S REPORT FOR iSoo-'oy. 

l'oRDE.NTu« N, N. J., May G, iJSOT. 
7o tJu Prcs'ui lit anil Directors of the TLlrd Corps 
f ft lou : 

<it:\Ti.EMKN — I have the honor to report that 
durin;]^ tlie year tliere has been received by tlie 
Treasurer eighty-one dollars and thirty cents, 
(Ssl.liO) ajjd disbursed during the Haine time one 
hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-five 
cents (Sl-~.4')) leaving a balance of two thou- 
sand atnl ninety-four dollars and ninety cents 
(^2,094.1M).) 

Ucspcct fully submitted, 

G. MOTT, 

Tn-asurer. 



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SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR l866-'67. 

To the ]* resident and Board of Directors of the 

Third Corps Union : 

Genti.emex— I have llic honor to pre.-^ont to 
yoji to-day tlie annual report called for hy the 
Con.stitution. Since the la.«t meeting I have re- 
ceived and i>aP8ed over to llie Trea.'^urer as dues, 
the fciuni of thirty nine dollars ($31>.) 

Inasmuch as the income of the Association 
did not Beem to warrant it, and inasmuch as re- 
• juestH have heen made to me from various tjuar- 
tcra for the puhliration of the amendments and 
alterations of the Constitution and By-Laws, 
and such other changes as may have been made 
since the war, I have failed U) comply with your 
orders in reference to having blanks printed, 
notifying menjbers of their indebtednesss, as well 
as the publication of the Treasurer's and Secre- 
tary's He|»orls of last year, deeming it best to 
await your further action in the matter, and 
feeling assure>i that a year's further removal of 
the menjbers from the busy, bustling, crimsoned 
-ceiies of the great rebellion might do much to 



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strengthen the ties of brotherly love, which must 
ere long, bind in indissoluble bonds the compan- 
ions and sharers of so many joys and sorrows, 
60 many victories and defeats. I have no doubt 
but that when the members, now widely scattered 
over the land, can receive in a concise form, the 
condition of our Treasury, and the present status 
of the Union, they would readily comply with 
the requisitions of the Constitution, and hasten 
to place themselves again squarely on the rolls 
of the Union. 

Since our last meeting I have been constantly 
in receipt of letters from our brethren through- 
out the country, asking for information, (to all 
of which I have responded,) which to my mind 
clearly evinces that the spirit of the old Third 
Corps, and the love for this Association, the 
only link binding us to our martial days, have 
by no means grown cold, or been permitted to 
die out. And while now there seems to be an 
apparent apathy and want of interest on the 
part of the members, I am confident that by 
using the means I have mentioned, the esprit de 
corps of ancient days would leap forth to a newer 
life, and to more enthusiastic demonstrations 
than have ever yet been witnessed, e'en in the 
midst of warlike scenes. 



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Willi all my ellbrts to that end, I have failed 
to secure the residences or places of business of 
hut comparatively few of tlie memhers. Tins 
might be attained, I think, by publishing in the 
prominent newspapers of tlie United States, a 
notice to tlie eU'ec-t that, members applying to 
he Secretary could receive the pamphlet to be 
-sued. This would j=ervc the double purpose of 
giving tlie Union their addresses, and of enabliufr 
(h'-m to receive the needed information. 

The only communication to which it is my 
pleanurable duty to call your attention, is from 
ihc *• First Massachusetts Infantry Association," 
iif IWstun, bearing the signatures of (ieneral 
Kubert Cowdin, as President, and I. P. Gregg, as 
Secretary, in which is embodied in a neat and 
novel form their kindliest salutations to the 
I'nion, and their assurances of never-to-be-for- 
gotten comra«leship. Their annual meeting will 
be held in Hoston on the 2oth inst., and it is per- 
chance meet and proper that we should, in return 
for their conlial remcmltrance, extend to them 
our fraternal hand. 

It is my sad duty to chronicle for you the 
death of Surgeon Fowler Prentice, of Brooklyn, 
l:ito Surgeon -1th Excelsior Heg'f. Knowing him 



intimately, and placing my testimony on record, 
that he was a thorough gentleman, and an ac- 
complished physician, it may, I trust, not be 
considered more a personal than a fraternal 
regard, M-hich prompts me to ask that you will 
notice, as you may deem best, his departure from 
the list of those who are bound to us by the ties 
of glorious memories. 

I have information, also, of the decease of 
our brother, Assistant Surgeon Charles B, Jaques, 
late of the Tth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. 
Most of those who are present to-day, knew him 
to be a faithful medical officer, a man of more 
than ordinary ability, and always gentlemanly 
in his deportment. And 1 should be false to my 
own heart-promptings, as well as false to the sin- 
cere sentiments of our Union, did I fail to com- 
memorate in this report the death of our second 
Secretary, and our honored, gifted friend and 
brother. Assistant Surgeon J. Theodore Cal- 
houn, U. S. Army. True to the spirit which 
gave such vitality to his career, he died a victim 
to a disease whose mission it was his to conquer. 
Possessing an indomitable will, a resolute spirit, 
and a brilliant genius, he rose to position in his 
profession, which adds lustre to his name, and 



pride to us to-day, a.s we pay our tribute of re- 
spect to Ills memory. I feel it to be not only a 
pleasure but a duty for me to recommend to you 
gentlemen, that a series of resolutions be passed 
and forwarded to his bereaved wife and family, 
expressive of our appreciation of his life and 
services to us as a Society, and deeply sympa- 
thetic witli them in this the hour of their afflic- 
tion. 

There may be others who have passed from 
earth since our last Assembly, and whose names 
are registered on the rolls of eternity; if they 
are oniiltcil in these, our tributes of respect to 
departed comrades, the omission must be attri- 
butcMJ to a want of knowledge. For such the 
Union wears the badge of mourning on its en- 
sign, uiid to their families extends its warmest 
sympathies and its most heartfelt benedictions. 

As 1 resjiectfully subnjit my report, may I 
indulge the hope, that as over the graves of our 
dead comrades, the green grass of an awakening 
spring has already begun to wave so may our 
memory ot them, and tjjosc they left behind, be 
so green, <o fresh, so pure, that we shall to-day 
again renew our allegiance to this our Society, 
and airain <leclare, that for the sake of our com- 



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rades in another world, and their stricken, sor- 
rowing ones in this, we tv'ill be true to our name, 
to our past, and to our future. 

EDWARD L. WELLING, 

Secretary od Corps Union. 
Penninijton, N. J., Mav 6th, 1807. 



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